From The Dead Book Summary

Improved Essays
In the book, From The Dead we are introduced to Rennie Charbonneau, he is the main character in the book. At the start of the book he is in Detroit. It than flashes back to the start of his vacation in Uruguay. His cousin Adam texts him and says check your email. He receives an email from his cousin Adam. In this email he gets a picture of a fake passport with his deceased grandfathers picture in it. There was also a picture of a person wearing a German war uniform which was circled. There was a hand written map and a page containing secret codes. Rennie emailed Adam and said, “I’m in.” Rennie went to visit someone; this person knew the name of the person wearing the German uniform. He was given an address in Detroit for the person circled in the …show more content…
He was walking to a hotel when someone started to shoot at him. He returned to the police station, and by mistake he picked up the shooter’s phone, because he thought it was his. Rennie was once again released from the police station.
He later followed the family that he had met earlier to a restaurant. At the restaurant Katya and her boyfriend Noah, were having a big celebration because they were going to get married. Earlier Rennie found out about a key to a safe deposit box that Katya and Noah were trying to find because it was storing a lot of gold and jewelry.
After the celebration Katya and Noah went to an abandoned house and Rennie secretly followed them there. Rennie is caught by Noah and he points a gun at him. Ed who is a friend of The Major, (Rennie’s dad) shows up. Ed points a gun at Noah and tells Noah to give the key back to Katya. Once Katya has the key, Ed than tells Katya to give him the key or he will shoot her. Noah than shots Ed and the police respond and arrest Noah. Rennie is later picked up from the police station by his grandmother.
The book is in first person. This is the summary for the book From The

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Summary Book Report I read the book Shackled by Tom Leveen. This particular novel was made up of two hundred and ten pages. This book was about a girl named Pelly, who when she was eight, went through a traumatic abduction at the mall, and her road to recovery. Her friend Tara, was abducted, and Pelly wasn't going to let anyone stop her from finding her friend.…

    • 583 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Summary of the Book The book is a narrative novel that switches from third person to first person. Wes Moore, the author, narrates the whole story and…

    • 1271 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The book is written in third person limited you only know the thoughts and feelings…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Abigail Mw Research Paper

    • 998 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The detective saw an opportunity. She grabbed the waitress's arm and said “You are coming with me, do not worry you are not going to jail. We just have to ask you some questions.” It was a cold winter morning in New York City, America.…

    • 998 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Aubrie Case Study

    • 704 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Aubrie that the cycle will repeat itself unless she can rescue the last person. He states how Vengeance used to kill the abusers but now he kills the victims to put them out of their misery – Aubrie disagrees with him. Mike tries to sway Rendició into letting him on the case by stating how Vengeance will strike again tonight. Rendició tells him Chester is going to trial and the case is almost closed. He tells Mike to drop the case or he’ll take his badge away.…

    • 704 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Maggot Moon Book Report

    • 655 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The book is written in first person, which gives the reader a stronger perspective of the main character, Standish. The conflict between Standish and Motherland reminded me of several conflicts that happened in the real world too. Standish, the main character of the book, lives in zone seven in Motherland which is not a very nice place. Deserting Standish with grandfather, his parents vanished and were never seen again.…

    • 655 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Memories are what builds a person’s personality and outlook. Collected as a human’s life runs its track, decisions are made based on what knowledge their senses gather and processed through a window of perspective. However, this window itself was formed by memories, its foundation and framework constructed by the experiences of childhood. Impressionable and void of history, what happens in the youthhood may drastically affect all future choices, goals, and relationships to be made. Ralph Ellison narrates the portions of his earliest days in the semi-autobiography “On Being the Target of Discrimination”, where he recalls the effects of racism had on his life.…

    • 1395 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    overpowering James. James knew he could not outpower this man so he lets the man push him to an empty open dumpster, and he uses the man's own strength against him by pushing his swinging arm on the dumpster and closing the lid on it as hard as he can. The man cries with the pain of his arm snapping and is punched In the face by James. He fainted just as James stumbled to the ground himself over his fear overcoming him.…

    • 149 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    If the story was written in the first person, the reader would have a better understanding of the…

    • 1029 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dual Nature- the main idea of the novel is the dual personality of people and how we can be “evil” and malicious one moment and kind and generous the next. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- title Good vs. Evil- this is the main theme and conflict in the novel. Throughout the novel the personalities of Jekyll and Hyde fight within his body for power and control.…

    • 879 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The short story “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver is told from the point-of-view of the narrator. Speaking in first person, the narrator describes a particular night in which he meets Robert, a blind friend of the narrator’s wife. Because the story is written in the first person, the reader is able to see what the narrator is thinking as well as speaking. Furthermore, because of the point-of-view and the brutal honesty of the narrator, the reader is given a chance to connect with the narrator and follow him through his personal transformation from the beginning of the story until the end.…

    • 1312 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Book Thief No matter who you are, what you do, or what you wear, death always strikes. Death can tear people apart, and even bring people closer together. In The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, it is written in Germany 1940, Death is the person that carries human souls after they die. He's the one who picks people's souls up after they pass, and he takes them to a place that is unknown. In this story Death is judged, by his name, on what he does.…

    • 1044 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dead In Attic Summary

    • 699 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In this book 1 Dead in Attic, Chris Rose speaks about aftermath and the real experienced people faced during the disaster that happened in New Orleans. Yes, Hurricane Katrina… Chris Rose explains how it it was after Katrina and make your realize what people of New Orleans actually experienced. Chris Rose talks about how him and his family evacuated New Orleans to Mississippi and then to Maryland. He describes what happens from the cat lady that survives the storm only to die from injuries, to the California National guard troops. He also talks about how when he came back to New Orleans a week later, and that he was fortunate because, his uptown home only had a broken screen door and loose gutter but that was the only way he was lucky, because all of his belongings were practically untouched by the disaster along with the rest of the properties in the upper region of the city.…

    • 699 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Title of Book: A Small White Scar Author’s name: K.A. Nuzum Number of pages: 192 The exposition of the book introduces us to the main characters of the book, fifteen year olds Will and Denny Bennon. The setting of the book is in Colorado by a town called La Junta during the 1940’s. Will and Denny live on a cattle ranch with their father.…

    • 660 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Adoration of Jenna Fox begins with two weeks after 17-year-old Jenna Fox wakes up from a year and a half long coma. She was in a coma because she was in a major car accident. She does not remember anything and her family has tapes for her to watch about her life to see if her memories will come back. She watches her tape called “Year Three/Jenna”. In this tape she learns that she used to live somewhere else besides her current residency in northern California.…

    • 1406 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays